The Black Power Movement and American Social Work
The Black Power Movement and American Social Work
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Abstract
The Black Power movement has often been portrayed in history and popular culture as the quintessential “bad boy” of modern black movement-making in America. Yet this impression misses the full extent of Black Power's contributions to U.S. society, especially in regard to black professionals in social work. Relying on extensive archival research and oral history interviews, this book follows two groups of black social workers in the 1960s and 1970s as they mobilized Black Power ideas, strategies, and tactics to change their national professional associations. Comparing black dissenters within the National Federation of Settlements (NFS), who fought for concessions from within their organization, and those within the National Conference on Social Welfare (NCSW), who ultimately adopted a separatist strategy, it shows how the Black Power influence was central to the creation and rise of black professional associations. It also provides a nuanced approach to studying race-based movements and offers a framework for understanding the role of social movements in shaping the non-state organizations of civil society.
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Introduction: Race, Resistance, and the Civil Sphere
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Re-envisioning Black Power
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Black Power Professionals
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“A Nice Social Tea Party”: The Rocky Relationship Between Social Work and Black Liberation
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“We Stand Before You, Not as a Separatist Body”: The Techni-Culture Movement to Gain Voice in the National Federation of Settlements
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“We’ll Build Our Own Thing”: The Exit Strategy of the National Association of Black Social Workers
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Exit and Voice in Intra-Organizational Social Movements
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Conclusion: Institutionalizing Black Power
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